PROCEEDINGS 



OF THE 



ENTOMOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF LONDON 



FOR 



1880. 



February 4, 1880. 

 J. W, Dunning, M.A., F.L.S., Vice-President, in the chair. 



The Secretary, on behalf of the President, nominated Mr. H. W. Bates, 

 Mr. J. W. Dunning, and Mr. H. T. Stainton, Vice-Presidents for 1880. 



The minutes of the two previous meetings were read and approved. 



Donations to the Library were announced, and thanks voted to the 

 respective donors. 



Election of a Member and Subscribers. 



Mr. Patrick F. Copland, of Hillcote, Buckhurst Hill, Essex, was ballotted 

 for and elected a Member. 



Mr. John B. Bridgman, of 69, St. Giles Street, Norwich, and Mr. Peter 

 Cowell, Librarian of the Free Public Library, William Brown Street, 

 Liverpool, were ballotted for and elected Subscribers. 



Exhibitions, dc. 



Mr. H. T. Stainton exhibited, on behalf of Mr. Grigg, of Bristol, a 

 specimen of Heliothis scutosa, captured near Weston-super-Mare. 



Mr. F. P. Pascoe exhibited a specimen of the common " fire-fly" of the 

 x\mazon Valley {Aspisoma lineatum), a species not mentioned by Messrs. 

 Bates and Wallace. It has the usual intermittent light, flashing at intervals 

 of about two seconds ; but Mr. Pascoe believed, contrary to the general 

 opinion, that the insect was capable of keeping back the light for an 

 indefinite time, as he found that when alarmed they at once disappeared. 

 Mr. Pascoe remarked that it would be very desirable that entomologists 

 abroad should pay some attention to these "fire-flies"; they seem to vary 

 in different localities. Mr. M'Lachlan had just told him that he had been 

 informed when in Sydney that in the country to the north the " fire-fly " was 

 a Dipterous insect. 



